Cyberspace

After reading the stories in Convergences that were about cyberspace, i began to think about it a lot more. I had never really sat down and thought about the term cyberspace nor have I ever really used it in a sentence of some kind. One thing I do think that is down right insane is how people become so obsessed with online games and stuff such as Second life, as they mentioned in the readings in convergences. It stated that fifteen million people play that game worldwide. Don't people have better things to do with their life? I know it is probably entertaining, and people like it because it is not real and you can express your feelings freely, but when you can actually spend real money on fake things in the game I think that is crazy. I just believe you can do a lot better things with your time like spend time with a loved one, read a book, play an instrument, clean, make the planet a better place to live, play with your cat, there are an infinite amount of other things you could be douing but many choose to go into a make believe land called cyberspace. I do understand that it is very addicting though. I once started playing a game called Cafe world on face book. I actually planned my day around that game, figuring out when ill be back from places so I can get that chicken pot pie out of the oven on time. It gets intense. But thankfully I quit and refuse to play any online game on the computer. They just aren't for me.